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"Annie Cossins has written a remarkable book. In tracing the moral regulation of the female body through the lens of infanticide from the nineteenth century to the present day, this work fills an important gaps in understandings of female criminality and moral panic theory. In situating her analysis within an historical, social, and legal context, Cossins makes a robust case for the way in which sexed bodies underpin how the female criminal might be framed and understood. Any scholar interested in gender and crime would do well to read this book and consider the challenge that this sexed body approach poses for them and their work." - Sandra Walkate, University of Liverpool, UK
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Annie Cossins is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Female Criminality
Book Subtitle: Infanticide, Moral Panics and The Female Body
Authors: Annie Cossins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137299420
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-29941-3Published: 22 January 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45274-3Published: 01 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29942-0Published: 22 January 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 302
Topics: Social History, Crime and Society, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Gender Studies, Child Well-being, Sociology, general